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Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

The idealist finds a cure, and the cynic turns it into poison.

He had seen groups of angry people turn into mobs too many times, and mobs turn into mindless, many-armed beasts, smashing and burning everything they could reach.

I can’t be expected to deal with being insane. Nobody should be required to put up with that.

It was the simple kind of crazy, though, the can’t-cope-anymore crazy, the kind that has you bursting into tears at small setbacks and contemplating your own mortality with sneaking relief. You could fake your way through life with that kind of crazy.

She might be crazy—heh, might—but she didn’t run to paranoia about anything but social interactions.

She’d never liked windows at night. She always had the feeling that if she looked up too quickly, she’d see a face pressed against them.

When the worst didn’t happen, she felt unsettled, as if she’d been leaning against a wind that suddenly stopped blowing.

It ain’t rude to ask for what you need.

Don’t talk about money. It’s rude to talk about money. Telling people you’re rich is crass and telling them you’re broke makes them uncomfortable.

Brains aren’t big enough to shove gratitude into.

Things show up when they’re needed.

Men live problems that are solvable; it is all to tempting, when faced with an unfixable reality, to simply pretend the problem has a different shape than it does.